Sutrakritang Sutra

SR No.: 032440
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sudarshanlal Acharya, Priyadarshan Muni, Chhaganlal Shastri
Publisher: Shwetambar Sthanakvasi Jain Swadhyayi Sangh
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 658
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & agam_sutrakritang
File Size: 21 MB

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श्री सूत्रकृताङ्ग सूत्रम् टीकार्थ - जिसमें प्राणियों के दस प्रकार के प्राणों का आहनन या विनाश होता है, उसे आघात कहते हैं । वह मरण है । उसके होने के अनन्तर जो अग्नि संस्कार, जलाजंली प्रदान तथा पितृपिण्ड आदि कार्य किए जाते हैं, उन्हें आघात कृत्य कहा जाता है । उन्हें कर उसके पुत्र, स्त्र स्त्री, भतीजे आदि पारिवारिक जन जो सांसारिक सुख लिप्सु होते. हैं, कष्टपूर्वक उस द्वारा अर्जित किए हुए धन को हर लेते हैं । जैसा किसी गुरु द्वारा किसी राजा को उदिष्ट कर कहा गया है कि-हे राजन् ! जिसने धन का अर्जन किया, स्त्रियों से विवाह किया, जिनका परिरक्षण किया, उसके मर जाने के बाद दूसरे लोग हर्षित परितुष्ट तथा आभूषणों से सुसज्जित होकर उसके धन व स्त्रियों के साथ क्रीड़ा करते हैं । किन्तु सावद्य-पापयुक्त कर्म द्वारा धन का अर्जन करने वाला वह मृत पापी पुरुष अपने किए हुए कर्मों के फलस्वरूप संसार में काटा जाता है, छेदन-भेदन आदि के रूप में तरह-तरह से यातनाएं पाता है । ॥४॥
उसके द्रव्य का भोग करने वाले पुरुष उसके लिए शरणप्रद नहीं होते । ऐसा दिग्दर्शन कराते हुए सूत्रकार कहते हैं ।
माया पिता बहुसा भाया, भजा पुत्रा य ओरसा । नालं ते तव ताणाय, लुप्पंतस्स सकम्मुणा ॥५॥ छाया - माता, पिता, स्नुषा भ्राता, भार्या पुत्राश्चौरसाः । .
नालं ते तव त्राणाय, लप्यमानस्य स्वकर्मणा ॥ अनुवाद - अपने द्वारा कृत पापों के परिणाम स्वरूप लुप्यमान-पीड्यमान कष्ट पाते हुए प्राणी को उसके माता-पिता पतोहु-पुत्र वधू, भाई, भार्या और सपुत्र आदि कोई भी त्राण नहीं दे सकते ।
____टीका - 'माता' जननीं 'पिता' जनकः 'स्नुषा' पुत्रवधूः 'भ्राताः' सहोदरः तथा 'भार्या' कलत्रं पुत्राश्चौरसाः -स्वनिष्पादिता एते सर्वेऽपि मात्रादयो ये चान्ये श्वशुरादयस्ते तव संसारचक्रवाले स्वकर्मभिर्विलुप्यमानस्य त्राणाय 'नालं' न समर्थाभवन्तीति, इहापि तावन्नेमे त्राणाय किमुतामुत्रेति, दृष्टान्तश्चात्र काल सौकरिक सुतः सुलसनामा अभयकुमारस्य सखा, तेन महासत्त्वेन स्वजनाभ्यर्थितेनापि न प्राणिष्वपकृतम्, अपि त्यात्मन्येवेति ॥५॥
__टीकार्थ - जन्म देने वाली माता-पिता, पुत्र वधू, सगा भाई, अपनी पत्नी एवं अपने और सुपुत्र ये सभी तथा श्वसुर आदि अन्य सभी संबंधी अपने द्वारा कृत कर्मों से संसार में पीड़ित होते हुए तुम्हें संसार में त्राण दे सकने में, तुम्हारी रक्षा करने में समर्थ नहीं हैं । जब वे इस लोक में भी तुम्हें दुःख से त्राण नहीं दे सकते, बचा नहीं सकते तो परलोक में त्राण देने की आशा ही कहाँ है । इस विषय में काल सौकरिक नामक कसाई के पुत्र सुलस का दृष्टान्त है । वह अभयकुमार का सखा-मित्र था । उसके पारिवारिक जनों ने प्राणी वध हेतु उसकी बहुत अभ्यर्थना की, जोर दिया, किन्तु उसने प्राणियों का जरा भी अपकार नहीं किया, हिंसा नहीं की, किन्तु अपने ही हाथ पर कुल्हाड़ी से प्रहार कर लिया ।
एयमटुं निम्ममो
सपेहाए, निरहंकारो,
परमाणु गामियं ।
चरेभिक्खू जिणाहियं ॥६॥ 418

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## The Sutra Kritanga Sutra with Commentary - English Translation

**Commentary:** The act of killing or destroying any of the ten types of living beings is called *Aghāt* (violence). It is death. The rituals performed after death, such as cremation, offering water, and ancestral offerings, are called *Aghāt Kṛtya* (acts of violence). Those who perform these rituals, the son, wife, nephew, etc., who are attached to worldly pleasures, take away the wealth earned by the deceased with great difficulty. As a Guru once instructed a king: "O King! Those who have earned wealth, married wives, and protected them, after their death, others rejoice, are satisfied, and adorned with ornaments, play with their wealth and wives. But the deceased sinner, who earned wealth through *Sāvadya* (sinful) and *Pāpa* (evil) actions, is tormented in the world due to the fruits of his actions, suffering various tortures in the form of cutting, piercing, etc." ||4||

**Commentary:** The Sutrakar (author of the Sutra) points out that those who enjoy the deceased's wealth are not his refuge.

**Verse 5:**
*Māyā pitā bahusā bhāyā, bhaja putrā ya orasā. Nālam te tava tāṇāya, luppantasas sakammunā.* ||5||

**Shadow Verse:**
*Chāyā - Mātā, pitā, snuṣā bhrātā, bhāryā putrāścaura sāḥ. Nālam te tava trāṇāya, lapyamānasya svakarmaṇā.*

**Translation:** When a being is suffering and tormented due to the consequences of his own sins, neither his mother, father, daughter-in-law, brother, wife, nor children can provide him with refuge.

**Commentary:** "Mātā" (mother) refers to the mother, "Pitā" (father) refers to the father, "Snuṣā" (daughter-in-law) refers to the son's wife, "Bhrātā" (brother) refers to the sibling, "Bhāryā" (wife) refers to the spouse, and "Putrāścaura sāḥ" (children) refers to the children. All these, including the mother, father, and others like the father-in-law, are not capable of providing refuge to the one who is being tormented by his own actions in the cycle of Samsara (world). If they cannot provide refuge in this world, how can they provide refuge in the next? There is an example of this: A butcher named Kāla Saukarika had a son named Sulasa. He was a friend of Abhayakumar. His family members pleaded with him to kill animals, but he did not harm any living being. Instead, he struck his own hand with an axe. ||5||

**Commentary:** The mother, father, daughter-in-law, brother, wife, and children, as well as all other relatives, are not able to provide refuge to the one who is suffering in the world due to his own actions. They cannot save him from suffering in this world, so how can they hope to provide refuge in the next world? This is illustrated by the example of Sulasa, the son of a butcher named Kāla Saukarika. He was a friend of Abhayakumar. His family members begged him to kill animals, but he did not harm any living being. Instead, he struck his own hand with an axe.

**Verse 6:**
*Eyam aṭuṁ nimmamo
Sapehāe, nirahaṁkāro,
Paramāṇu gāmiyam.
Carebhikkhū jiṇāhiyam.* ||6|| 418

**Translation:**
This is the path of non-violence,
Free from attachment and ego,
Walking the path of the atom,
Following the teachings of the Jina. ||6|| 418